I thinking text mode console.  Is the PC still going to have it at 0xB800 ?

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:05 PM, "David F." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I couldn't find the protocol to use to get the character/attribute at
>> a particular location on the screen?
>
> There is not a method you need to remember what you put there if that matters 
> to you.
>
> Not all console types support reading the screen. For example a serial 
> connection running terminal emulation does not always allow you to read the 
> info.
>
>> Are we supposed to just read
>> video memory directly?
>>
>
> Reading the video memory is not going to tell you anything. EFI does not 
> support a graphics text mode. Only GOP. So you would have to know what fonts 
> are in used to figure out what is going on. That sounds very difficult.  The 
> SimpleTextOut driver that sits on top of GOP is Blt'ing fonts to the graphics 
> screen.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
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